BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Cobb Institute - ECPv6.15.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Cobb Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cobb.institute X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Cobb Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220504T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000137-1651651200-1651654800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-05-04/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220419T045512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T173027Z UID:10000315-1651572000-1651579200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Jefferey Long DESCRIPTION:Topic: Cosmic Pluralism: Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Swami Vivekananda’s Religion of the Future \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Jefferey Long \n\n\n\nJeffery D. Long is Professor of Religion and Asian Studies at Elizabethtown College\, in Elizabethtown\, Pennsylvania\, where he has taught since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 2000. He is the editor\, most recently\, of the volume Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu\, Christian\, and Scientific\, as well as the co-editor of the Buddhism and Jainism volumes of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-05-03/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220503T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220606T013830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T004002Z UID:10000199-1651566600-1651570200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet? DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet/2022-05-03/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Awakening-Planet-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20221115T233821Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221115T233821Z UID:10000183-1651134600-1651138200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World DESCRIPTION:Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that meets twice a month to read and discuss texts that deal with the vast diversity of world faiths\, those that have had a very large influence for many centuries as well as those that may be newer and less well-known. The only prerequisite for this group is a desire to learn about the wide variety of religion expressions. \n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-readings-on-faiths-around-the-world/2022-04-28/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Readings-on-Faiths-Around-the-World-featured-1200x600-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220309T044724Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220417T053433Z UID:10000310-1651078800-1651082400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Process Pop-up: The Kyoto School: a Buddhist Contribution to Ecological Civilization DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Jared Morningstar\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin a sophisticated discussion of the Kyoto School of philosophy and how these cosmopolitan Buddhist thinkers offer resources for building ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nFrom The Kyoto School: True Emptiness\, Wondrous Being website: \n\n\n\n“The Kyoto School was founded by Nishida Kitaro at the beginning of the 20th century\, and now covers three generations of philosophers who have endeavoured to express the insights of the East in the philosophical language of the West. As they did so\, however\, they have in fact created a new kind of philosophy\, a radically new way of thinking from the standpoint of emptiness – and empathy – which goes beyond the limited scope of traditional Western philosophy\, which is the standpoint of being – and that of the self-centred calculative mind\, cut off from a true experience of reality. Their insights will be of interest to those interested in current research about the nature of consciousness and cognition\, as well as those concerned by the inadequacy of the prevalent Western mode of thinking in tackling social\, political\, economic and environmental issues.” \n\n\n\nThe Kyoto School and its representatives offer a unique dialogue with traditions of Process thought\, as both maintain a skepticism of the dominant substance ontology of much of mainline Western thinking. In his forward to Nishitani’s masterpiece\, Religion and Nothingness\, scholar Winston L. King writes that \n\n\n\n“One other possibility remains [for dialogue between the Kyoto School and Western thought] in the field of American philosophy\, and one that has been slightly explored already. To this writer it seems to have the greatest potential for sustaining a full philosophical-religious contact between Buddhist East and Christian West of any thought pattern in America. This is the so-called process philosophy which had its roots in the thought of A. N. Whitehead\, especially in his seminal Process and Reality” (Winston L. King\, “Foreward” in Religion and Nothingness by Keiji Nishitani\, Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press\, 1983\, xxi). \n\n\n\nThis pop-up will examine the specific resources provided by these philosophers of emptiness for collaborating in the project of ecological civilization. \n\n\n\nThis pop-up will be hosted on Zoom and facilitated by Jared Morningstar. The session will last approximately one hour. Resources pertaining to the topic are linked below as springboards for discussion. Resources pertaining to the topic are provided at the event page linked below as springboards for discussion. \n\n\n\n Sponsored by Process & Faith and the Cobb Institute. \n\n\n\nTo find out more and receive Zoom info… \n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-the-kyoto-school-a-buddhist-contribution-to-ecological-civilization/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Kyoto-School-Header.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220427T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000136-1651046400-1651050000@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-04-27/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220411T211613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T211627Z UID:10000313-1650967200-1650974400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, Heeyoung Jung\, and Farhan Shah DESCRIPTION:Topic: Contrasts and Commonalities across Cultures \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, Heeyoung Jung\, and Farhan Shah \n\n\n\nProcess thought has become important for Dr. Maria Guadalupe Llanes\, a Christian philosopher in Caracas\, Venezuela\, for Dr. Farhan Shah\, a Pakistani Muslim process philosopher teaching in Oslo\, Norway\, and for Heeyoung Jung\, a Korean Methodist working with EcoCiv Korea. As they share stories of their engagement with process-relational ways of thinking and being in their worlds\, let’s see what we will learn by the contrasts and commonalities across cultures. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-04-26/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220425T160000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220419T172612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T173126Z UID:10000316-1650898800-1650902400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Educational Development Meeting DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jay McDaniel\, Chair of the Cobb Institute Board\, will join us to discuss an exciting new project of the Institute’s education team. Join us to learn more about this new educational offering. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/educational-development-meeting/ CATEGORIES:Educational Development ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Educational-Development-featured-image.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000135-1650441600-1650445200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-04-20/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220406T185647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220406T185651Z UID:10000312-1650362400-1650369600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ilia Delio DESCRIPTION:Topic: Teilhard de Chardin as Process Thinker: Why We Can’t Stay Still and Neither Can God \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ilia Delio \n\n\n\nTeilhard de Chardin was an insightful process thinker who developed insights on science and religion that are valuable for our age. His ideas on a metaphysics of union\, hyperphysics\, the physics of love and mindful materiality all play a role in the Godworld relationship. I will discuss Teilhard’s unique contribution to process thought in his notion of the Christic and the elusive Omega Point. \n\n\n\nIlia Delio\, OSF\, is a Franciscan Sister of Washington DC and holds the Josephine C. Connelly Chair in Christian Theology at Villanova Universe. She is the author of over twenty-three books including Making All Things New: Catholicity\, Cosmology and Consciousness\, a finalist for the 2019 Michael Ramsey Prize and The Unbearable Wholeness of Being: God\, Evolution and the Power of Love\, for which she won the 2014 Silver Nautilus Book Award and a 2014 Catholic Press Association Book Award in Faith and Science. She is founder of the Center for Christogenesis\, an online educational resource for promoting the vision of Teilhard de Chardin and\, more broadly\, the integration of science and religion in the 21st century. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-04-19/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220606T013830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T004002Z UID:10000198-1650357000-1650360600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet? DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet/2022-04-19/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Awakening-Planet-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220414T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T235342Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T013605Z UID:10000173-1649925000-1649928600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Readings on Faiths Around the World DESCRIPTION:Readings on Faiths Around the World is a book group that meets twice a month to read and discuss texts that deal with the vast diversity of world faiths\, those that have had a very large influence for many centuries as well as those that may be newer and less well-known. The only prerequisite for this group is a desire to learn about the wide variety of religion expressions. \n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-readings-on-faiths-around-the-world/2022-04-14/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Readings-on-Faiths-Around-the-World-featured-1200x600-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000134-1649836800-1649840400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-04-13/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220327T221322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221031T212906Z UID:10000304-1649757600-1649764800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - David Bartosch DESCRIPTION:Topic: Culture as a Core Process of Human Cosmic Life \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): David Bartosch \n\n\n\nDr. Bartosch is a German philosopher serving as a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai\, where he focuses on transcultural comparative philosophy\, the traditions of world philosophy\, and intercultural studies. He has been recently engaged with John Cobb in lengthy discussion about an upcoming publication. Bartosch says\, “In this talk\, I will refer to a concept of culture (especially also ecology-related) which stands in relation to the philosophies of Whitehead and to Dr. Cobb’s comprehensive works. I will try to interweave this topic with the thoughts on cosmic life discussed with Dr. Cobb during our January online meeting. In relation to ideas about culture and (eco-)morality\, I might also refer to John Coltrane and Friedrich Schiller as case examples for artists’ thoughts on the subject matter.” \n\n\n\nHere is a link to a detailed list of Bartosch’s writings and television interviews. He discusses why a German scholar finds inspiration in ancient Chinese philosophy in brief excerpts from this television interview. A more extensive interview with the Chinese press\, about Wang Yangming as a reformer of Confucian tradition\, is available about 19 minutes into this YouTube video. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-04-12/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220304T192308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220304T220900Z UID:10000305-1649437200-1649440800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Process Pop-up: Buddhist Disenchantment & Process Reenchantment DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Doug Holmes\n\n\n\n\n\nBuddhists have long taught that the spiritual life eventually requires one to become disenchanted with the world. Process thinkers have suggested that to overcome our civilizational ills we need to reenchant the world that modernity has disenchanted. Do we have to choose\, or can we have both? We’ll examine some quotes about reenchantment and disenchantment from the process philosopher David Ray Griffin and the Theravadin Buddhist teacher Ajahn Chah. Process thought and Buddhism have a long and fruitful history\, but will this drive a wedge between them? Join us for an enchanted hour as we divine into these questions. \n\n\n\nTo find out more and receive Zoom info… \n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-buddhist-disenchantment-process-reenchantment/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Process-Pop-up-Buddhist-Disenchantment-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000133-1649232000-1649235600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-04-06/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220322T055827Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220322T055839Z UID:10000306-1649152800-1649160000@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Thomas Jay Oord DESCRIPTION:Topic: Pluriform Love—A Theology of Well-Being \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Thomas Jay Oord \n\n\n\nFriend of Cobb Institute\, Tom Oord will discuss with us his latest book\, further exploring his “open and relational” theology of love. He defines love this way: “To love is to act intentionally\, in relational response to God and others\, to promote overall well-being.” An award-winning author\, he has written or edited more than twenty-five books. A gifted speaker\, Oord lectures at universities\, conferences\, churches and institutions. He is known for his contributions to research on love\, science and religion\, open and relational theology\, the problem of suffering\, and the implications of freedom for transformational relationships. Learn more at his website for the Center for Open and Relational Theology\, which he directs. He also is Director of an “open and relational” doctoral program at Northwind Theological Seminary. For access to his latest essays\, blogs\, and multiple short podcasts\, see thomasjayoord.com. \n\n\n\nOord completed his Ph.D. in religion at Claremont Graduate School under supervision of David Ray Griffin. He is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-thomas-jay-oord/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220405T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220606T013830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T004002Z UID:10000197-1649147400-1649151000@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet? DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet/2022-04-05/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Awakening-Planet-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000132-1648627200-1648630800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-03-30/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220307T083744Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T083753Z UID:10000311-1648548000-1648555200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby DESCRIPTION:Topic: We Refuse to Be Enemies! \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Sabeeha Rehman and Walter Ruby \n\n\n\nWe Refuse to Be Enemies: How Muslims and Jews Can Make Peace\, One Friendship at a Time (Arcade\, 2020) is a manifesto by two American citizens\, a Muslim woman and Jewish man\, concerned with the rise of intolerance and bigotry in our country along with resurgent white nationalism. Together\, Rehman and Ruby have spent decades doing interfaith work and nurturing cooperation among communities. They have learned that\, through face-to-face encounters\, people of all backgrounds can come to know the Other as a fellow human being and turn her or him into a trusted friend. In this book they share their experience and guidance. \n\n\n\nGrowing up in Pakistan before she immigrated to the United States\, Sabeeha never met a Jew\, and her view was colored by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his youth\, Walter never met a Muslim\, and his opinion was shaped by Leon Uris’s Exodus. Yet together they have formed a friendship and collaboration. Tapping their own life stories and entering into dialogue within the book\, they explain how they have found commonalities between their respective faiths and discuss shared principles and lessons\, how their perceptions of the Other have evolved\, and the pushback they faced. They wrestle with the two elephants in the room: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and polarizing material in their holy texts and history. And they share their vision for reconciliation\, offering concrete principles for building an alliance in support of religious freedom and human rights. \n\n\n\nTo explore further the experience out of which Sabeeha and Walter write\, check out their author profile and a YouTube discussion for the Central Arkansas Library System; an event announcement for the Beacon Hebrew Alliance\, and this article in the Jewish Standard. You can follow Sabeeha Rehman’s blog here\, and Walter Ruby’s “Keeping Hope Alive” blog here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-03-29/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000131-1648022400-1648026000@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-03-23/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220307T082608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T082617Z UID:10000309-1647943200-1647950400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Ronan Hallowell DESCRIPTION:Topic: Story of Wholeness: Community\, Communion and Narrative Medicine \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Ronan Hallowell \n\n\n\nMany of today’s catastrophes emerge from a profound problem of fragmentation that has infected modern thought and culture(s) – at least since the dawn of the Newtonian-Cartesian cosmology. The deep alienation characteristic of the modern world is rooted in a pathological story that yields a distorted view of the human relationship to the natural world. As Thomas Berry has argued\, we need to retire these distorted\, pathological stories and embrace the Great Story of the Universe. The Great Story is a multivalent story of wholeness and relationality. \n\n\n\nThis talk will discuss how stories of wholeness are emerging in contemporary allopathic medicine through the acknowledgement of the need for community and health justice\, the healing potential of ‘communion’ experiences occasioned by psychedelic medicines and attention to the power of story that is emphasized in narrative medicine\, a new field of study in medicine and the medical humanities. \n\n\n\nRonan Hallowell\, EdD\, MA\, is assistant professor of medical education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California where he serves as Director of the Health Justice and Systems of Care longitudinal MD course\, Associate Director of the USC Center for Mindfulness Science\, and faculty in the M.S. program in Narrative Medicine. He has been a student of integral philosophies\, the world’s wisdom traditions and Lakota medicine ways for over 25 years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-03-22/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220322T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220606T013830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T004002Z UID:10000196-1647937800-1647941400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet? DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet/2022-03-22/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Awakening-Planet-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220317T180000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220227T080122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220227T080234Z UID:10000303-1647536400-1647540000@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Process Pop-up: The Role of Spiritual Independents in the Interfaith Community DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Jared Morninstar\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin an engaging discussion on being spiritually independent\, and how these spiritual voyagers outside the halls of institutional religion can be important partners in interfaith dialogue. \n\n\n\nTo help you prepare\, additional resources pertaining to the topic are provided on the event RSVP page linked below. \n\n\n\nTo find out more and receive Zoom info… \n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-the-role-of-spiritual-independents-in-the-interfaith-community/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Pop-up-Role-of-Spiritual-Independents-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000130-1647417600-1647421200@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-03-16/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220307T082015Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220307T082023Z UID:10000307-1647338400-1647345600@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Richard Falk DESCRIPTION:Topic: Making Ecocide a Crime \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Richard Falk \n\n\n\nIn 1973 Professor Falk drafted an Ecocide Convention\, explicitly recognizing at the outset “that man has consciously and unconsciously inflicted irreparable damage to the environment in times of war and peace.” In 2021 he served as a judge for the International Rights of Nature Tribunal\, seeking accountability for damage to aquatic ecosystems in Europe. (Check out this June\, 2021\, legal definition of “ecocide.”) \n\n\n\nRichard Falk is a professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University where he was a member of the faculty for 40 years. He currently is a Professor of Global Law\, Queen Mary University London. Falk has been nominated annually for the Nobel Peace Prize since 2009. He is the Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and between 2008-2014 served as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. \n\n\n\nOf the 20 books he has authored and another 20 he has edited\, friends of John Cobb may remember Falk’s editing with David Ray Griffin of Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy\, Process\, and Presidential Vision (SUNY\, series in Constructive Postmodern Thought\, 1993)\, and his more recent co-authorship with Griffin\, John B. Cobb\, and Catherine Keller of The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: A Political\, Economic\, Religious Statement (Westminster/John Knox Press\, 2006). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-03-15/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T090000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220605T233322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220606T012802Z UID:10000129-1646812800-1646816400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: Process & Coffee DESCRIPTION:Process & Coffee is about spiritual integration and exploration. We meet weekly to dive into books by mystics and sages. The discussion that follows helps to deepen our own spiritual lives. \n\n\n\nTo learn more or join\, send an email to learninglab@cobb.institute. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-process-coffee/2022-03-09/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Process-and-Coffee-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T120000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220222T061700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220308T173526Z UID:10000300-1646733600-1646740800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:John Cobb & Friends Gathering - Dhawn Martin DESCRIPTION:Topic: Process\, Interfaith Dialogue\, and Fostering Compassionate Cities \n\n\n\nPresenter(s): Dhawn Martin \n\n\n\nDhawn B. Martin\, Ph.D.\, is Executive Director of the Source of Light Center\, an interfaith education center at University Presbyterian Church\, San Antonio\, TX. A graduate of Wellesley College (B.A.)\, Durham University\, UK (M.A.)\, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (M.Div.)\, and Drew University (Ph.D.)\, her areas of academic interest include\, public theology and civic engagement\, process and political theologies\, and multireligious dialogue. Courses taught include: “Power\, Peace\, and Love: Alternative Political Paradigms\,” “Utopian Worlds\,” Contemplation and Social Action\,” and “Religion in a Global Context.” She is an ordained Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and a co-editor of the volume Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice for an Entangled World. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation about how to access each gathering is made available via email. To find out about a single meeting\, send an email to events@cobb.institute. If you would like to receive regular meeting announcements and updates about the Institute\, please join our list of Friends. \n\n\n\nCan’t make it to the live session? Click here to access our archive of Cobb & Friends recordings. URL:https://cobb.institute/event/john-cobb-friends-gathering-2022-03-08/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Cobb & Friends ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Cobb-Friends-featured-image-1300x500-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Cobb Institute":MAILTO:events@cobb.institute END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T093000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220606T013830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T004002Z UID:10000195-1646728200-1646731800@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Learning Circle: An Awakening Planet? DESCRIPTION:A Discussion Group Contemplating the Vision of Teilhard de Chardin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitated by Dr. Ernie Tamminga\, this group meets every two weeks to carefully consider how and whether Teilhard de Chardin’s hope-filled perspective on the human evolutionary future can still inspire us in a time full of conflicts and division. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFIND OUT MORE URL:https://cobb.institute/event/learning-circle-an-awakening-planet/2022-03-08/ LOCATION:Online Event CATEGORIES:Learning Circle ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/An-Awakening-Planet-featured-image.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T163000 DTSTAMP:20260420T223623 CREATED:20220227T074221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220227T074936Z UID:10000301-1646407800-1646411400@cobb.institute SUMMARY:Process Pop-up: Daoist Meditation as Practice and Philosophy DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Zhenbao Jin\n\n\n\n\n\nMeditation is not simply a practice\, but a philosophy-based practice\, or a practice-based philosophy. With philosophy I mean our fundamental understanding of life and the cosmos\, and especially\, our understanding of life and death. \n\n\n\nEach of us begins the practice of meditation with a certain philosophy. The point is\, what is our purpose to do the practice of meditation? Are we trying to prove that philosophy is true? \n\n\n\nIt depends on the philosophy itself. A philosophy that holds death is an inevitable and natural result of life will have effect upon the practice of meditation very different from a philosophy that holds death is not the end and life\, including body and soul\, has a potential of perpetual development. \n\n\n\nTaoism belongs to the latter category. I would like to introduce my practice and research on these issues and expect a lively discussion with other members of the community. \n\n\n\nZhenbao will talk about Daoist philosophy for about 20 minutes and then we will have a discussion. In the last 20 minutes he will introduce the practice of Daoist meditation and lead a 10-minute session. After that\, the group will discuss the experience. \n\n\n\nTo find out more and receive Zoom info… \n\n\n\n\nRSVP NOW URL:https://cobb.institute/event/process-pop-up-daoist-meditation-as-practice-and-philosophy/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cobb.institute/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Pop-up-Daoist-Meditation-header.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR